Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville

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Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (born July 1, 1680 in Paris , † November 29, 1765 ) was a French scholar, natural historian, author of scientific writings and encyclopedist .

Live and act

His father was the bookseller Antoine Dezallier, his mother Marie Mariette was the widow of the publisher Jean Du Puis. Dezallier studied at the Collège du Plessis , attended some law lectures and learned drawing and engraving from Jean Corneille (1649–1695), Alexandre Le Blond and Bernard Picart . In 1696 the father bought the Argenville estate in the parish of Bezons and handed it over to his son in 1711, who then added the name d'Argenville. In the following years, Dezallier d'Argenville toured Germany, Italy and England. In 1718 he married Françoise-Thérèse Hémart, their son Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d'Argenville was born in 1723. In 1720, Dezallier d'Argenville sold his property in Bezons and moved to Bièvres . He is said to have created parks at both properties, but these are hardly documented. His wife died in 1742 and he later remarried.

His book La théorie et la pratique du jardinage first appeared anonymously in 1709 and was a widespread and important work on garden art in the 18th century. The second edition was marked with the author's initials, others appeared under the name of the architect Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679–1719), who drew the panels, including the English and German editions. The author revised the editions of 1713 and 1747 according to the rapidly advancing taste of the time and added further, more modern tables. The work was translated into English by John James (approx. 1673–1746) as early as 1712 and translated into German by Franz Anton Danreiter in 1731 under the title Die Gärtnerey, both in terms of theory or consideration as practice or exercise .

From 1748, Dezallier d'Argenville worked for the Encyclopédie Denis Diderots . In a letter he speaks of more than 2000 articles that he wrote for the lexicon. In fact, there are 597 with the abbreviation “K”, which in the Encyclopédie itself is only resolved with “d'Argenville”, so that the proportion of father and son remains unclear.

Dezallier d'Argenville owned a large collection of shells , which he published on, as well as a collection of engravings and drawings.

His son Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d'Argenville (August 27, 1723 Paris – September 26, 1796 Paris) wrote a Dictionnaire du Jardinage and many garden articles in the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and d'Alembert , and in 1787 the two-volume work Vies des Fameux Architectes depuis la Renaissance des Arts .

Works (selection)

  • La théorie et la pratique du jardinage, ou l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins Apelles communément les Jardins de plaisance et de propreté, composés de parterres, de bosquets ... . Nouvelle ed. - Paris: Mariette, 1709, 1713, 1747. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
    • Le Blond, Alexandre / Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville: Die Gärtnerey, Sowohl In their theory or contemplation, as practice or exercise, all of which are beautiful gardens, which one only generally calls pleasure and ornamental gardens, and which consists of pieces of pleasure and foliage, bushes and wasens, or grass depressions, is dealt with in detail, Wobey to find many ground cracks and general openings in the gardens / at the same time new demolitions of foliage, pleasure hedges / grass depressions / Crazy gardens / halls / covered corridors / and garden houses of nails / ramparts / stairs, spring fountains, waterfalls and other things that are used to adorn and decorate the gardens. Augsburg, Andreas Pfeffel, 1731 ( digitized )
  • Traité des vernis, où l'on donne la manière d'en composer un qui ressemble parfaitement à celui de la Chine, et plusieurs autres qui concernent la peinture, la dorure, la gravure à l'eau-forte, etc. 1723, translation from the Italian, original by Filippo Buonanni
  • L'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, la lithologie et la conchyliologie . 1742
  • Enumerationis fossilium, quae in omnibus Galliae provinciis reperiuntur, tentamina , 1751
  • La Conchyliologie, ou Histoire naturelle des coquilles de mer, d'eau douce, terrestres et fossiles, avec un traité de la zoomorphose, ou représentation des animaux qui les habitent . 2 vol., 1752; 1757; 1780
  • Abregé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, avec leurs portraits gravés en taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, quelques réflexions sur leurs caractères, et la maniere de connoître les desseins des grands maîtres. Par M *** de l'Académie royale des sciences de Montpellier . 3 vol., 1745-1752. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée & augmentée de la Vie de plusieurs peintres . 4 vol., 1762.
  • L'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, l'oryctologie, qui traite des terres, des pierres, des métaux, des minéraux et autres fossiles . 1755. Pages 387 to 532 contain a chapter under the heading Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des fossiles qui se trouvent dans toutes les provinces de France , which is a corrected and expanded version of the title Enumerationis fossilium, quae in omnibus Galliae , published in Latin in 1751 provinciis reperiuntur, representing tentamina .

literature

  • Eloge de M. Desallier d'Argenville. In: La Conchyologie, ou Histoire Naturelle de Coquiolles . 3. Edition. Paris 1780, pp. IX-XXIV.
  • Dictionnaire de Biographie francaise. Vol. 6, Paris 1939
  • Ingrid Dennerlein: The garden art of the Regency and Rococo in France. Worms 1981.
  • Susanne Gramatzki: "The aestheticized nature. Garden art and natural science with Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville". In: Julia Burbulla / Ana-Stanca Tabarasi-Hoffmann (ed.): Garden art and science. Discourse, representation, transformation since the beginning of the early modern era , Bern a. a. 2011, pp. 163-203.
  • Detlef Karg: Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. Notes on his 300th birthday. In: Architecture of the GDR. No. 29, 1980, pp. 506-508.

Web links

Wikisource: Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1989 Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 128
  2. ↑ autorités sudoc. Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur, accessed on August 6, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Madeleine Pinault-Sørensen: Dezallier d'Argenville, l'Encyclopédie et la Conchyliologie . In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie . No. 24 , 1998, pp. 101-148 , doi : 10.3406 / rde.1998.1415 .
  4. ^ A b c Clemens Alexander Wimmer: La Theory et la Pratique du Jardinage by Dezallier d'Argenville. For the 300th anniversary of the book . In: Zandera . tape 24 , no. 2 , 2009, p. 70-82 .
personal data
SURNAME Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dézallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French scholar, natural historian, horticultural theorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1765